Speaker 1: On first down hill why Alfred and to catch and touchdown.
Speaker 1: Humphrey tossed the Pollard and there he goes Johnny Pollard
Speaker 1: down the sideline, chips her on touchdown. Dallas another interception,
Speaker 1: and this is Watkins to the end zone. But the
Speaker 1: flag is down and it looks like it's gonna stand.
Speaker 1: That was Carlos Watkins putting the finishing touches on a
Speaker 1: seven to seventeen Cowboys victory on t n F. I'm
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal and I am so excited to be joined
Speaker 1: by my friend, you know him on Twitter as nfl
Speaker 1: UK Hank Dave Damask. Listeners nome as a handsome Hank.
Speaker 1: But I just know, miss Henry, that's what That's what
Speaker 1: I p And you know back in the day, Henry,
Speaker 1: when I first came to the NFL, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to what was a pretty good Thursday night game,
Speaker 1: better than I expected. So I'm happy the Saints gave
Speaker 1: us some entertainment back in the day. People Erica might
Speaker 1: not know this. There Eric is on as well. Of course,
Speaker 1: Here Henry was running all of content four NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: He decided where things went on the page. Henry was
Speaker 1: essentially my boss. I worked with him about how all
Speaker 1: the things were gonna happen. And you know, one of
Speaker 1: his favorite uh columns of mine that he liked to
Speaker 1: just put right in that what we call the CP
Speaker 1: and big big Good spot. It was winners and Losers.
Speaker 1: You know what a creative article. So that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do tonight, little winners and Losers from TNF. I
Speaker 1: love it. Greg used to push back on winners and loses.
Speaker 1: He would say, why do we need to say who
Speaker 1: who are winners and loses? The school tells us who
Speaker 1: are winners and losers? Um? And it was like, Greg,
Speaker 1: come on, we can do better than that. We know
Speaker 1: we can tell more stories. So I'm excited. Did yes
Speaker 1: to to be able to to decide who else won
Speaker 1: and lost beside just the cowboys in the Saints. That
Speaker 1: might have been like easy, Like early on, when I
Speaker 1: had some integrity, I was like, oh, we shouldn't just be,
Speaker 1: you know, fishing for page views. But but soon I
Speaker 1: realized that he gave up on that quick. That was
Speaker 1: more of like an off season column. You know, we
Speaker 1: didn't really need to do Winners Loser during the season
Speaker 1: because you know, They're not the first winner here is
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. They did win the game twenty seven seventeen,
Speaker 1: and I think I'll start my winners and losers. I'll
Speaker 1: give Ceedee Lamb a little of seven for eighty nine today.
Speaker 1: And like the last couple of weeks without Lamb and Cooper,
Speaker 1: it's just like, oh yeah, it's important to have the
Speaker 1: best combination of wide receivers in the Like I don't
Speaker 1: know why I thought like the Cowboys would be fine
Speaker 1: without them, but they absolutely weren't. Cooper was limited tonight.
Speaker 1: But just Ceedee Lamb when he put that little move
Speaker 1: on Malcolm Jenkins in the open field with that third
Speaker 1: down catch where there was no separation between Bradley Roby
Speaker 1: and him. To me, he is the difference. He he
Speaker 1: was the difference. That's my first little winner. He and
Speaker 1: and he's the difference. And he's the difference in you know,
Speaker 1: uh Cowboys receiver call, which I think is like easily
Speaker 1: the best in the league at this point. Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: reminded us who he is. You know, occasionally you'll forget that.
Speaker 1: Mikey got Michael Gallops there, and I know he's been
Speaker 1: been out injured for a few weeks, but then he'll
Speaker 1: pop up and make a catch like he did today
Speaker 1: and that was insane as well. So that whole Cowboys
Speaker 1: receiving corps is ridiculously good, right, And Gallup is good
Speaker 1: at like two things jump balls and sideline catches, you know,
Speaker 1: which he kind of combined with that touch sense that's
Speaker 1: perfect when like you're the third receiver and just like
Speaker 1: go ball he's good at just like running down the field.
Speaker 1: He has like a skill set that's valuable. But when
Speaker 1: your first two guys are out like, it doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of sense. And so it was
Speaker 1: do you know what else he's gonna be good at
Speaker 1: and the next and the next few months is getting
Speaker 1: paid an awful lot of money? That's for it to
Speaker 1: add a receiver in free agency? Yeah, he will get
Speaker 1: paid a lot. And I've seen some like little projections
Speaker 1: and whatnot, like he's gonna make more than that. Everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna make more than that. That TV money is coming in.
Speaker 1: Henry's getting some of it eventually, right, I mean I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. But what like my second favorite,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal call him is the top one on one
Speaker 1: free agents and Gallup will be right on that list.
Speaker 1: I think, well, like I would project if I had
Speaker 1: to guess now, I think you're gonna put him somewhere
Speaker 1: between twenty and fifty. I was just gonna say top thirty,
Speaker 1: probably top. I'm gonna say I think he'll be low.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be lower than that on the initial list.
Speaker 1: I am gonna miss doing it with Chris again. Um
Speaker 1: did that last year? Um, And I bet he's one
Speaker 1: of those. I think he'll be in the thirties, thirties
Speaker 1: or forties initially, and then all the franchise tags and
Speaker 1: resignings get taken off, and then he'll get pushed up.
Speaker 1: That I called that to pretend top one on one
Speaker 1: the actual top one on one and the guys who
Speaker 1: hit free agency right well that you know how it
Speaker 1: is in the game, Like people want those page views.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be looking for the the initial top thirty
Speaker 1: and Annuary is that thing. Does numbers give me a
Speaker 1: winner or loser or whatever. I'm want to give you
Speaker 1: a winner, and my winner is I've heard enough about
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons going to be the defensive rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to hear about that anymore. What
Speaker 1: I want to hear about, and I think tonight we're
Speaker 1: a winner for is the defensive player of the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is playing at a level and has done
Speaker 1: throughout the season that should be have him in that
Speaker 1: conversation for people are trying to slot you know, t J.
Speaker 1: Watt in there, they're trying to slot uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Myles Garrett and there no one's playing better than Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons right now. And what I'm excited about is that,
Speaker 1: beyond anything else in the league, he we don't have
Speaker 1: any part, you know, we we've kind of we've gone
Speaker 1: missing with a pass Russia who's been the best defensive
Speaker 1: player in the league for for some time. And I
Speaker 1: think Michael Persons is filling that slot really nicely. Now
Speaker 1: I love this take. This is why I needed Henry
Speaker 1: on the pad. He's not just a Dolphins fan. He
Speaker 1: brings that takes. I think you're right. I think there's
Speaker 1: still what six five games left of the season for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, six for a lot of teams, There's a
Speaker 1: long way to go here, and so I think if
Speaker 1: he continues at this pace and Garrett is slows down
Speaker 1: a little bit, and the Browns have a bad finish.
Speaker 1: I'm buying that tonight was as an interesting example because
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence returned for the Cowboys. I'll give him a
Speaker 1: little winner too, you know, let's just throw that in there. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so they're getting there with the four men rush,
Speaker 1: and they weren't using Parsons quite as much as like
Speaker 1: an edge rusher, which I don't know. To me, he
Speaker 1: was one of the five best addressers in the league.
Speaker 1: Like he's a good off ball linebacker, but he's even
Speaker 1: better just rushing the passer, and and I want him
Speaker 1: to do that all the time. But then there's another
Speaker 1: play where he's running down the field covering Kenny Stills
Speaker 1: tipping the ball that turns into an interception, Like what
Speaker 1: what can he not do? That is the type of
Speaker 1: that's what you want out of defensive player there. Do
Speaker 1: you know why Kenny Stills um has a special place
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL news room? Though, Henry, Yes,
Speaker 1: I was. I think I was there, and I don't
Speaker 1: think we're allowed to say so. I was just I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say Kenny Stills was not coming down
Speaker 1: with a lot of contested catches tonight and that was
Speaker 1: that was exactly what my argument um with the former
Speaker 1: colleague was all about, was his inability. The most catholic
Speaker 1: argument in the history of NFL media. It was like
Speaker 1: it was like it ran for most of the day,
Speaker 1: UM with with these two individuals, Greg and someone whose
Speaker 1: name I think I may have even forgotten at this point,
Speaker 1: UM going back and forth throughout the day, and it
Speaker 1: got very testy. And I will know what all I'll say,
Speaker 1: Um if you if anyone listening is interested in who
Speaker 1: won the argument? Is Greg still employed by the NFL?
Speaker 1: No one. No one's seen since they say like live
Speaker 1: in your head, rent free. You know. I was just saying,
Speaker 1: we got a text from Greg tonight, blank dying somewhere
Speaker 1: with all these Kenny Stills drops. It was well, I
Speaker 1: just st I hadn't thought about it in a while.
Speaker 1: And the argument was a percent about contested catches, and
Speaker 1: so it was funny. Here we are six years later,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that is the that's the best, Um, that's
Speaker 1: the best scoreboard. And Henry and I were in jobs
Speaker 1: that were, at least for me, not as enjoyable, much
Speaker 1: more stressful back then, and a lot of the people
Speaker 1: we didn't enjoy over the years, they're all gone. We're here.
Speaker 1: Greg's the only one left down even I've really left.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let's throw a loser at how about how
Speaker 1: about Taysom Hill in the fourth quarter. So winner, Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill the first three quarters. Loser Taysom Hill in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, as he threw three of his four interceptions,
Speaker 1: or at least three. We're in eleven plays. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if one was in the third. I actually thought
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill looked pretty good early in this game playing quarterback,
Speaker 1: which is what he did in the preseason. I thought
Speaker 1: he looked better as a quarterback in the preseason than
Speaker 1: he ever had before. Making quick to sit. Then it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're you trade your trailing the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: then you hurt your finger. It's a lot to ask
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. No, you don't have either of your Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl tackles. But it was more of the decisions than
Speaker 1: the execution for the most part. In it all kind
Speaker 1: of fell apart. But I I applaud Taysom Hill for
Speaker 1: giving us a better game than I think Trevor Simeon
Speaker 1: would have. So that's my damning with me hell throws
Speaker 1: another one for yeah, I I'm I had Taysom Hill.
Speaker 1: I slid Taysom Hill from the winner's column over to
Speaker 1: the loser's column in the last ten minutes of the game.
Speaker 1: That one quarter where he you know, in the third
Speaker 1: quarter he ran for seventy one yards. He had one
Speaker 1: drive where he ran for first downs and it was
Speaker 1: like Sean Payton just like sticking up both middle fingers
Speaker 1: over at dan Quinn. That was kind of fun, Like
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. At least they gave us a
Speaker 1: little something that that would be the dead game. All right,
Speaker 1: give me, give me a loser, or I'll give you loser.
Speaker 1: His name Brands. Okay, so if you if you don't
Speaker 1: tune into the NFL that much, you see the Saints
Speaker 1: are going to be on TV, and you're like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: high powered offense. This is going to be exciting. You
Speaker 1: see Ze Elliott in the background in the backfield, and
Speaker 1: you think, okay, we've got a guy who can who
Speaker 1: can run the ball and break tackles and do exciting things.
Speaker 1: And if you watch now what you find is a
Speaker 1: Saint's offense. You're like, wait, who are these people that
Speaker 1: are playing on this offense because this isn't interesting. And
Speaker 1: and you have Zeke Elliott, who you know. There were
Speaker 1: a couple of plays and it was it was very
Speaker 1: much called out boy by Tray when there where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke has got no juice left. He managed to turn
Speaker 1: the corner and then was caught by I think a
Speaker 1: defensive line. He's playing hurt but exactly Erica. And and
Speaker 1: then it's like, well, why are we posisting with Zeke?
Speaker 1: Just give him a couple of weeks off and let him,
Speaker 1: let him rest up. It's a weird thing with injuries
Speaker 1: this year. I've thought about a lot with Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and different guys, like who is it serving when you're
Speaker 1: playing guys that are clearly hurt, Like that's the NFL
Speaker 1: m O, Like we're gonna play through injuries. But it's
Speaker 1: not helping him, it's not helping the team. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Pollard is so good, um that he should just be
Speaker 1: getting most of the reps. He he basically is that
Speaker 1: that'll give me a loser, which is Marcus Williams is
Speaker 1: ability to evaluate like an angle on a play on
Speaker 1: that Tony I know he was like slow playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he was. He was preventing Pollard from cutting
Speaker 1: back inside, but he thought he had the angle because he's,
Speaker 1: you know, a great athlete. Marcus Williams is a franchise
Speaker 1: tag safety, I think, one of the better safeties in
Speaker 1: the league. Having a pretty good year for the Saints.
Speaker 1: He thinks, like, this guy's not gonna outrun me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make sure he doesn't go. And uh, that's what
Speaker 1: happens when you mess up with Tony Pollard. Oh boy, um,
Speaker 1: Erica has just slacked me. She wants in on this
Speaker 1: winners and losers fun, and you know, I'm feeling generous.
Speaker 1: Erica should be allowed in whenever she wants. Let's hit
Speaker 1: what are go? Wow? Thanks Hank. Okay, So my winner
Speaker 1: is Mike McCarthy because what you will see floating in
Speaker 1: the ether this week, it's like Mike McCarthy is gonna
Speaker 1: be on zoom. He's really virtually involved. So it looked
Speaker 1: like almost the Cowboys were trying to get ahead of
Speaker 1: this message that like, it's not dan Quinn, like Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy is very capable, which I found very interesting. So
Speaker 1: then dan Quinn they win, which is great for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but they didn't win so handedly that everyone's like Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn is the answer. So I think that it was
Speaker 1: a win in the book for Mike McCarthy, and the
Speaker 1: loser of tonight is the listeners listening to you guys
Speaker 1: discussed like the layout of NFL dot COM's internet pages.
Speaker 1: I think that I don't that I don't agree that
Speaker 1: it was great stuff people like to hear um people
Speaker 1: people like to I think that's a good take. I
Speaker 1: think that's a good take. It felt like Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: was definitely like just calling more passes at the end
Speaker 1: of the game than Mike McCarthy would have. But I
Speaker 1: don't blame Kellen Moore for that. I'm more disappointed that
Speaker 1: what looked like the old Doc being back in the
Speaker 1: first half, and I thought he played well in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of that Raiders game. I'm like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is old deck, Like I'm pulling for Doc. Doc would
Speaker 1: be my like narrative m v P. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen now. I think he's played too many poor games.
Speaker 1: But then they just had a sluggish second half. Again.
Speaker 1: I know the Saints defense is good, but they just
Speaker 1: could not put that game away. I don't blame more
Speaker 1: on trying to like work on from passing and get
Speaker 1: better and trust in his passing game, but they were
Speaker 1: not getting it done. One last loser for you, Um,
Speaker 1: at least for me. You're welcome to go anymore, Henry. Uh,
Speaker 1: Saints fans, you know, it's been a tough year. They
Speaker 1: set up this whole season where this was gonna be
Speaker 1: the peak Thanksgiving night and then the post Thanksgiving Thursday slot,
Speaker 1: which I've noticed has just turned into a Cowboys slot
Speaker 1: every year, which it's a it's a good thing that
Speaker 1: you get the whole week. Uh. This was all building
Speaker 1: to this, and in the in the first seven games
Speaker 1: of the season, they beat the Bucks, the cow the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and the Packers by a combined like seventy Like they
Speaker 1: were a frisky, fun team. I think if they had
Speaker 1: their tackles and Alvin Camara out there tonight, they might
Speaker 1: have won this game. Like even with Taysom Hi and
Speaker 1: um they you know, they they the Saints fans like
Speaker 1: got all excited, We're hoping for this game, and then
Speaker 1: you have that blindside block call, which was very strange,
Speaker 1: and you have to watch Greg's Urline hit a fifty
Speaker 1: plus yard or field goal, bringing back memories of the
Speaker 1: worst loss I would say in franchise history against the Rams.
Speaker 1: So just a tough night. Look at you throwing shade
Speaker 1: at people with Greg's called Greg with only one g
Speaker 1: no shade. I mean the dudes, the dudes clutch. He
Speaker 1: sent the Rams to the super Bowl and uh he
Speaker 1: sent I guess, uh the Cowboys to a lead here
Speaker 1: tonight in anyone that took the Cowboys minus seven. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's thankful to Greg's. That's true. I've got a couple
Speaker 1: of others, I think you know another another loser or
Speaker 1: pair of losers, Dan and mark Um not being on
Speaker 1: here um right, and they got they got on me out.
Speaker 1: I'm or you haven't heard this yet, but at the
Speaker 1: end of today's show, they like implied that I had
Speaker 1: some sort of machiavellian scheme that I'm having you on
Speaker 1: before them because you're like going to rise in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and like that's that's the reason that I would do it.
Speaker 1: Or they're just like jealous that I'm hanging out. It's
Speaker 1: very very I mean, you know, look, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: definitely not loyal. If they asked me, I'll also come
Speaker 1: and join that, right, You've been available about this last
Speaker 1: year we all sat during when we were all supposed
Speaker 1: to be you know, social distancing, and Dan and Mark
Speaker 1: and I watched a terrible Seahawks Cardinals Thursday night game
Speaker 1: and then did a wrap up after that. So I'm
Speaker 1: not loyal. Will I'll join them if they would like
Speaker 1: me to. I also include me as a loser here
Speaker 1: because of all the games that I could have chosen
Speaker 1: to join you on for Thursday night football wrap up,
Speaker 1: this was not necessarily the one. This season has been
Speaker 1: some there have been some good Thursday night games and this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's fair. I did initially, you know, asked for
Speaker 1: that Dolphins game which they beat the Ravens. That would
Speaker 1: have been fun, but you were you were working, you
Speaker 1: were on the East Coast. There would have been like
Speaker 1: after midnight there, and you got to enjoy that. Well.
Speaker 1: I was actually at the time, I was in Dolphins
Speaker 1: remission and had decided I wasn't going to watch it,
Speaker 1: and then because it was so exciting, I found my
Speaker 1: way to a bar to do it. Can I throw
Speaker 1: one other winner out there? And this is just a
Speaker 1: personal one, um, but a friend of mine. UM Adam
Speaker 1: Dirty is the defensive line coach for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: a Hard Knocks star, so I'm going to throw him
Speaker 1: out as a winner. But especially he is part of
Speaker 1: the Michaeus Myke Cleats program that's going on at the moment,
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize coaches can be involved in. But
Speaker 1: he really wanted to find a charity to support in
Speaker 1: the UK, and I worked with him and we found
Speaker 1: he very passionate about knife crime, which is a big
Speaker 1: problem in the UK and in London especially, And there's
Speaker 1: a charity called the Godwin Lawson Foundation, UM which supports
Speaker 1: kids and tries to get you off the street, eats
Speaker 1: and out of you know, bad situations. And he was
Speaker 1: wearing shoes for this game. UM that was was kind
Speaker 1: of honoring the Godwin Lawson Foundation. So that Godwin Lawson
Speaker 1: Foundation is a winner for me tonight because they got
Speaker 1: a chance to be shown on on national TV in
Speaker 1: the US, which is which is pretty cool. He's UM,
Speaker 1: he's an up and coming man. I know he's your buddy.
Speaker 1: This group party, you know, Parsons getting a little shine.
Speaker 1: De Marcus Lawrence coming back, going to make them better.
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory having a career year with them. I think
Speaker 1: people saw him on hard knocks and that is not
Speaker 1: going to hurt his chances to get job. Henry only
Speaker 1: hangs out with like really handsome guys. That's why, that's
Speaker 1: why we're such good That's why we're hanging out exactly,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm I'm a winner to you know. I
Speaker 1: um this last year, you know, I I do think
Speaker 1: about things differently, and I was like, do I want
Speaker 1: to really be calling up you know, some great football
Speaker 1: mind from like CB a sports line that you know
Speaker 1: I don't really know that. Well, No, I want to
Speaker 1: hang out with my good friend Henry a little extra
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and make his family have to be quiet
Speaker 1: late on a Thursday night and they can work way
Speaker 1: later than he would have to. This is definitely not
Speaker 1: what this is fun. But let's time next time, let's
Speaker 1: do it in person. Yes, I want to do that,
Speaker 1: all right. Appreciate you, Hank, Appreciate Ricky and um. We
Speaker 1: will be back on Saturday on NFL Network. Check us
Speaker 1: out in the Sky Sports as well the broadcast DVR
Speaker 1: that and UH Sunday for the Flagship Show. Until then,
Speaker 1: we will see it beat the cough. Forgot that bro,